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Mar 15, 2016 9:21 AM CST
Name: Michele
France
Birds Cat Lover Irises
Hello Greg;
I would like to take this opportunity to clarify my own position concerning photographs of my plants in general and my own photographs of them in particular. For example, the photo of Pain d'Épices above is one of my own, a "work" photo I took two years ago and I only included it here for Bonnie's benefit; it isn't intended for use in anyone's database. Pain d'Épices is not yet introduced, thus its current official status is that of "named seedling" and I am in the process of sending stock to my American distributor, Hugh Stout. As I am not a commercial garden---and as such, I dispose of limited in garden space---multiplying various cultivars can be a complicated business, not to mention shipping them from France the the United States; I will spare you the horror stories concerning last year's shipping efforts. Some of the plants on your list have not been and will likely not be introduced, such as Beau Ténébreux, Derviche, Écume de Mer, Endimanché and Lune Bleue. They are named seedlings. A la Folie I'm not sure about introducing and its status and that of Conte de Fées is still named seedling. Winkin', Blinkin' and Nod will eventually be introduced by Stout Gardens, but are not currently commercially available. I am not sure if Cœur d'Hiver has ever been sold in the United States and Comédie Française is an introduced plant, so I'm sure there are photos of it somewhere---at least I would hope that there would be finally, after the total disaster that Filardi made of the introduction of Comédie Française, La Part des Anges and Avant-Première. Interestingly enough, your list does not include Comme un Volcan, which won a gold medal at the Munich International Iris Competition and was subsequently introduced in the States by Stout Gardens.

About photos: I tend to take a hard line view of the use of my iris photographs; I have had a lot of problems with various websites concerning unauthorised use of my photos, to the point where I have been, in two cases, obliged to produce the ORIGINAL photo in order to prove that it is my work and belongs to me! The AIS iris wiki had even given credit for one of my photos to another photographer and refused to believe it was mine until I produced the original, so perhaps you can understand that I am somewhat more cautious these days.

Having said all that, I do not see the interest of including named seedlings in the All Things Plants database. I would prefer that Pain d'Épices not be included until such time as it is introduced; it was only registered last year, so eventually the information concerning it will be in the upcoming R&I---but it is not yet commercially available.

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